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PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FISHES. 



In addition to the above the experiment was tried of introducing 

 into Lake Saline, near Palestine, Tex., 1 barrel of reef oysters, 24 blue 

 crabs, and 157 marine fishes, among which 5 species were represented. 



THE STATIONS. 



Fish-cultural work is at present conducted at 32 stations and 

 numerous substations, the latter being auxiliaries operated only at 

 particular seasons. Some of them are the principal sources of the 

 egg supply in their respective regions; others are important as dis- 

 tributing points. In the following list, which shows the output of the 

 various stations, the character of the work conducted at each is indi- 

 cated by arbitrary signs, thus: Stations where eggs were hatched 

 during 1905, *; stations used merely as egg-collecting points, §; sta- 

 tions concerned in the work of rescuing fishes from the overflowed 

 lands, f . 



Stations and Substations Operated in 1905. 



